Empire Newsletter

Also, only three tokens have outperformed bitcoin so far this year: XMR, HYPE and SKY

Pump.fun seemed to kick off buybacks on Tuesday according to onchain analysis

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley tells Blockworks that it tapped a third party to provide the reports

Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo says institutions are eager to get exposure to tokenization

Coinbase’s newest acquisition includes the CEO and Head of Research from Opyn

Monad Foundation’s Keone Hon said the team’s been “thinking about how to grow the onchain economy for some time”

This doesn’t change the fact that co-founder Roman Storm is facing a trial starting next week

Blockworks Research data shows that VC spending is back on the rise after a slow May

Apps are doing well, as is casino gaming, says Tom Schmidt of Dragonfly

Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi and 6MV’s Mike Dudas discuss the recent “staid and rational” behavior of crypto markets

“We’re not really doing anything controversial,” said co-founder Zak Folkman at Permissionless last week

Framework’s Michael Anderson explains what tokens need in order to be successful

Prediction markets have found a mainstream fit

Walter Hessert, Head of Strategy at Paxos, told Blockworks that firms are recognizing a need for stablecoins

The $135 million raise shows that TradFi giants are serious about crypto adoption

Frachtis is focused on pre-seed and seed rounds in both consumer apps and AI

Crossover’s CEO discusses institutional interest and how over-the-counter (OTC) trading has picked up in crypto

In a new letter, Gemini alleges that the CFTC’s DOE had ulterior motives for 2022 suit

If we get an altcoin season, it’ll be focused on tokens deemed “ fundamentally valuable enough for traditional public money and capital” to get involved with

BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein noted that the firm had been looking into crypto since 2017

Here’s a look at who owns bitcoin

Franklin Templeton’s Roger Bayston tells Blockworks that stablecoins and market funds ‘complement’ each other

Blockworks Research’s Boccaccio explains why he likes Plasma “overall”

Chainalysis, Kraken, Fireblocks and Gemini are on the list, but we might not see a redo of Circle’s success